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Textile fragment with bands of leaves, vine, quatrefoils, and diamond-shapes
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown
- Dimensions
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32 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
block 11 x 6 cm estimated (length x width)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.585
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Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), no. 578 on p. 171 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 171 fig. 578
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Two parallel bands, one brown, the other red, and further subdivided into narrow bands. The brown band has elaborate leaves as well as a stylized continuous vine, the red band has quatrefoils, stylized leaves, and small diamond shapes. The designs are all very small, but intricate and elaborate. They are defined by white lines against a red or brown ground.
The block used for printing the red band had a measurement of 11 cm. x 6 cm. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.
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